Liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya on Friday made an urgent application before the UK High Court seeking access to millions of pounds to cover his living expenses and legal fees from funds held with the Court Funds Office as part of bankruptcy proceedings, initiated by a consortium of Indian banks led by the State Bank of India. Deputy Insolvency and Companies Court Judge Robert Schaffer declined to allow a draw down from the court-held funds of an estimated amount of around 1.5 million pounds, accrued from the sale of Mallya's French luxury property Le Grand Jardin earlier this year, until further arguments in the case. However, he did allow the release of 240,000 pounds plus VAT to cover the legal costs of a substantive hearing in the bankruptcy proceedings scheduled for next Friday.
Over 100 members of the Sikh community held a protest in front of a federal court on Wednesday to protest the alleged role of Congress leaders in the 1984 riots.
Shaneel Jain of Rhode Island was sentenced on Friday by US District Judge Robert Chatigny in Hartford to six months of imprisonment, one year of supervised release and three months of home confinement for threatening to bomb the facilities of Z-Medica Corporation, US Attorney for the District of Connecticut David Fein said.
United States Federal Judge Robert Sweet in New York ruled that the Indian National Congress has been 'properly served' with summons in the November 1984 anti-Sikh riots as per the Hague Service Convention.
A "merciless and evil" South African man who murdered Anni Dewani -- a Swedish with Indian origin on a honeymoon -- in 2010, allegedly at the behest of her UK-based NRI husband, was on Thursday sentenced for life.
A United States judge has reserved his orders on submissions by the Congress party that the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case filed against it by a rights group in New York be dismissed as the Manhattan court does not have jurisdiction over the case.
An Indian citizen, living "illegally" in the United States, has been found guilty by a US court of providing material support to Lebanese extremist group Hezbollah and faces a maximum sentence of 75 years in prison. Patrick Nayyar, 48, was convicted after a week-long jury trial before US District Judge Robert Sweet.
The Congress party, which has been named in a case in New York for its alleged role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, has challenged the jurisdiction of an American court to hear the matter filed against it by a Sikh advocacy group
The uncle of United States President Barack Obama appeared in a Massachusetts district court on Thursday for a hearing on a drunken driving charge and was released on personal recognisance.
An Indian-origin former high-ranking officer has been sentenced to 15 years in prison by a court here for siphoning off government money to the tune of $9 million, most of which was intended to help identify victims of 9/11 terror attacks, and stashing it away in India.
An American court has dismissed a human rights violation lawsuit against Congress party filed by a Sikh group in the anti-Sikh riots case, saying the group has no legal standing to file such a suit and events that do not "touch and concern" the US will not be heard in a US court.
A former president of Guatemala's football federation pleaded guilty on Friday to charges he received bribes to award lucrative media and marketing rights for football matches, the latest development in the US corruption investigation into world football's governing body FIFA.
A 50-year-old Indian, who was residing illegally in the United States, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison by a court for conspiracy and attempting to provide material support to Lebanese group Hezbollah.
Sandeep Kaur had pleaded guilty to four counts of bank robberies earlier this year. Ritu Jha/Rediff.com reports from California.
The Congress has approached a United States court in New York seeking dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a Sikh rights group over the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, saying American courts do not have subject matter jurisdiction over the case.
Sandeep Kaur could face up to 20 years for each robbery.
A United States judge has reserved ruling on a lawsuit filed in New York by a Sikh rights group against the Congress party in the anti-Sikh riots after hearing arguments by it that the case should be dismissed since the incidents of 1984 are India's internal matters.
Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong has reached a settlement with an insurance company over $3 million in performance bonuses paid to him from 1999 to 2001, his spokesman said on Wednesday.
The Congress has opposed an appeal filed by a Sikh group that challenged dismissal of the 1984 rights violation case against it, saying the group does not represent the victims and United States courts cannot rule on cases involving an incident that took place in India 30 years ago.
Facebook is appealing the class certifications, which the Menlo Park, California-based company said are "without merit" and conflict with "well-settled" precedent
A federal judge said on Monday he likely will allow a lawsuit to move forward accusing cyclist Lance Armstrong and his business partners of defrauding the U.S. Postal Service of endorsement money through Armstrong's use of performance-enhancing drugs.
Arthur J Pais, who has covered the Toronto International Film Festival for Rediff.com for 13 years, glances at the buzz-worthy movies at TIFF 2014.
"Though Sonia Gandhi was not a member of the Congress in 1984, she later became president of the party and now she shields the perpetrators of the genocide of Sikhs in 1984," alleged attorney Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, legal adviser to Sikhs for Justice, which has filed a civil suit against Gandhi in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Nisha Agarwal, commissioner of the New York Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs, recalls, with both anguish and elation, the events of the last fortnight after the US President's order banning entry for people from seven countries was put in place.
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